If Purchase Two Contracts

[Rainman]

I am a DVC member. If I purchase a second contract with the same use year from a party other than Disney, will I have two memberships or one? IE will Disney consider me one member with two contracts??

If I purchase a second contract with a different use year from a party other than Disney, will I have two memberships or one? IE will Disney consider me one member with two contracts??

 

[Happy Birthday Cat]

If it's a separate use year it is definitely a separate membership. I have two blue cards with two separate numbers. One of the cards has the membership year listed as the year the contract was first bought, which was 2 years before I became a member. We did this so I am sure.

If it is the same use year, I believe (but am not sure) that you have to do a little work by contacting DVC before the closing takes place to make sure it becomes an add-on and not a separate membership. I have never done this so am not sure but thought I read it here at one time. I'm sure someone else has had this experience and will give a more definetive answer.

HBC

 

[SleepyatDVC]

We bought 2 resales with the same UY relatively close in time to each other. DVC automatically assigned us only one membership number and numbered the 2 contracts .001 and .002.

I believe the contracts must be the same UYs and the names of the owners must be exactly the same.

 

[RobDoc]

As HBC correctly stated- if you purchase a different Use Year, it will be a separate contract (regardless of the source).

If you purchase the same Use Year (regardless of the resort), DVC might combine the contract into your master contract - if the deed is titled exactly the same - but they may also miss it and provide another membership number.

If it's important to you to have all contracts combined into one, make sure the deed is titled the same, the Use Year is the same and let DVC know that you want them under the same membership.

Good luck!

 

[Dean]

It is DVC's goal to combine contracts but sometimes they don't know to. Or if the registration is different in any way, it will have to be a separate contract even if the same use year.

 

[Caskbill]

By all means you want to combine them. There are differences between having a Master Contract with an Add-On contract from having two separate master contracts.

Specific differences include:

1. Combining points at 7-months to make a single reservation.

2. There's a difference in how points can be banked at the various banking deadlines. (I.E., point total is used for Master/Add-On, and individual totals are used for separate contracts.

 

[justKim]

We added on HHI points to our SSR contract through the Timeshare store. Same UY and DVC combined them without our having to do anything. (Or perhaps the Timeshare people did it) In retrospect we may have been just lucky, because we were such DVC newbies and it didn't occur to me that we might end up with different member numbers. Having one membership is definitely optimal.